Locum Consultant General Surgeon - Specialist Interest in Benign UPGI

Wye Valley NHS Trust wishes to appoint a Locum Consultant General Surgeon with Special Interest in Upper GI Surgery, to be based at the County Hospital, Hereford.

This is a 12-month Locum full time post attracting 11PAs, consisting of 8.5 DCC PAs and 2.5 SPAs. Job plan is 11PAs but additional PAs are negotiable as service needs dictate.

The successful candidate will be a General Surgeon with training and/or experience and benign Upper GI surgery interest. The Upper GI surgical department provides complex benign Upper GI services including biliary surgery and hiatal surgery. A successful hot cholecystectomy service has recently been established.

This post's duties include regular once/month provision of General and Upper GI Surgical services at Llandrindod Wells War Memorial Hospital.

The successful candidate will be part of the General Surgical emergency on-call rota which will be 1 in 8 with the prospective cover.

The successful applicant should be proficient in the management of common Gastrointestinal and General Surgical emergencies. They will retain responsibility for the care of these patients but can refer to appropriate specialist colleagues., o Provide a Consultant Surgeon service for the management of Upper GI and General Surgical diseases, as required for outpatient, inpatient and day-cases at the WVT.

o Be committed to the General Surgery on call rota.

o Collaborate with Gastroenterologists and other clinical colleagues in the local Upper GI cancer MDT, the regional Upper GI Cancer & Hepatobiliary specialist services (at Gloucester and Birmingham respectively) to provide high quality care to local patients.

o Participate in multidisciplinary audit meetings.

o Be actively involved in postgraduate training / teaching especially for the SpRs in the department.

o Participate in departmental audit and clinical governance activity.

o Work with the management team to meet the organisation's waiting time targets for all patients.

Experience/Training in advanced laparoscopic surgical skills and Upper GI endoscopy are essential.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.